Recent content by freefrog

Absolutely. With a DCR and an inductance divided by four, hi-gain PU's in parallel come closer to Filter'Tron's or Tarback neck HB's... :-)

Not new: a now retired luthier / winder for whom I've worked had a model like that in his catalog. The interest of the thing was in the multiple wiring options available...

A JB, a Custom or any high gain humbucker should appear as super clear neck pickups once wired in parallel, FWIW. ;-)

+1...

I've intentionally mounted a Cool Rails bridge in neck position of my main Swiss army knife stage guitar. It has a series parallel switch. Series = P90 territory. Parallel = Fender single coil vibe. Really useful to me these last decades. YMMV.

There's more than flux strenght changes behind all that IME. :-) OP mentions that the attack "feels faster". According to our experiments here, this specific feature is definitively due to less eddy currents (whose presence causes what users feel as "compression": Foucault currents limit the...

For the record, it also depends on the resistive load. :-) With a passive pickup + a cap in series, a similar hi-pass effect could practically be obtained from a 2,2nF cap alone or from a 22nF + a 100k resistor to ground. The difference being how the 100k load would also flatten the resonant...

FWIW, a series capacitor doesn't work with an EMG like with a passive humbucker. Reason: the preamp of an EMG HB already includes a hi-pass filter... Revealing comparison there: https://www.cycfi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/all-freq-response.jpg More tests and explanations there...

Well, business made me post BS or, at least, leaves me too tired to see how to wire an ACTIVE pickup for series cap with a regular 5 ways switch (even if with a passive one, it should be doable). So, yes, a superswitch seems to be needed finally.

My archives mention this "Suhr mod" as involving a 22k in series with a 33nF cap, the whole being in series with the EMG85. It's basically a hi-pass filter. The second row of poles on a regular 5 ways switch should allow to wire that. Will dig the question and share about it if time permits (am...

Was a teen, had a cheap first guitar, DiMarzio was the hype... Then I dissected the stock pickups and your question makes me realize it was 45 years ago.

Totally logical to me... short hex poles = less inductance, less eddy currents. Does exactly what you describe. Enjoy!

Below is the electrically induced response of a Duncan humbucker, 500k volume pot, no tone control, before a 2,2nF cap in series @ the output jack (black line = series cap on, vs pink line for the raw response of the pickup without series cap). This measurement done on a real pickup before my...

So, consider what I said: a series cap after volume pot(s) has not the same cutoff frequency than before. But if you start with a 2.2nF (0.0022µF) series cap like in the G&L schematic, it should still give you what you want. If it cuts too much bass to your ears, try 3.3nF, 3.9nF, 4.7nF and so...

FWIW, the cutoff frequency won't be the same if the filter is before or after a volume pot. I've shared a few 5spice sims about that here: https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/on-“anti-mud”-caps-in-series-with-pickups-a-side-note.446786/post-9837538 Also, if a regular tone pot is in the signal...